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• Introductions
  • Who are you?
  • Who am I?
  • Goals of the session
  • Outline of the session
  
  
• Conceptual Foundations
  • Definition of Technology: It is NOT about the tools, it is a way of thinking.
  • Emerging technologies: Shifts in what it means to be literate
  • Literacy: Changes in definition of literacy = need for shifts in educators' perspectives
  • Three Ps of the Culture of Collaboration: Critical & creative communication, personal learning networks, social action
  • Cognitive Flexibility & Adaptability: Need more than one tool in order to flexibly adapt to rapid pace of change and new information
  • Easy as 1, 2, 3: Register, Log in, Click around

• Personal Productivity
  • Key Principles:
    • Convergence
    • Transliteracy
    • Visual Cognition
    • Cognitive Load
    • Representing Content in Multiple Ways
  • Examples of Useful Tools:
    • ReQall
    • Google Language Tools
    • Stock Xchng
    • Picnik

• Professional Collaboration
  • Twitter
  • Delicious
  • Diigo
  • Google Reader
  • Google Forms
  • Wikispaces
  • ACTFL Online Community

• Creative Communication
  • Texts
    • Conte-moi
    • International Digital Children's Library
    • Legends & Folktales
    • YouTube Videos
  • Tasks
    • Planning for Success
    • Authentic
      • Audiences
      • Contexts
      • Materials
      • Purposes
    • Build Prior Knowledge
    • Scaffolding
    • Demonstration (Models)
    • Evaluation
  • Tools
    • Bubbleply
    • Glogster
    • GoAnimate
    • Poll Everywhere
    • SAP Tools
    • Scrapblog
    • Storybird

• Q&A